The staff of The Opportunity Agenda is composed of a diverse group of professionals who, together, bring experience and expertise in the areas of communications, research, policy, advocacy, law, fundraising, and administration. For a list of former staff members, please click here.

Leadership

  • Alan Jenkins, Executive Director, Co-Founder

    Alan was Director of Human Rights at the Ford Foundation, managing over $50 million in grant making annually in the United States and eleven overseas regions, before joining The Opportunity Agenda.  Previously, he served as Assistant to the Solicitor General at the U.S. Department of Justice.  Prior to that, he was Associate Counsel to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., where he defended the rights of low-income communities suffering from exploitation and discrimination.

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  • Janet Dewart Bell, Director of Communications

    Janet has been a communications and management consultant specializing in policy advocacy, strategic planning, executive and staff training, and education. She has been a key strategist and senior executive at a number of national organizations including PolicyLink, the National Urban League, and National Public Radio (NPR). While a Visiting Research Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, she developed and taught a course in Effective Advocacy.

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  • Jason P. Drucker, Ph.D., Director of Development and Operations

    Jason joined The Opportunity Agenda after supporting development for a number of non-profit organizations in New York City including the Rudolf Steiner School, the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, and the Legal Action Center.  In this capacity, his work has included strategic planning, overseeing the annual fund and special events, capital and endowment giving, foundation relations and major gifts.

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  • Juhu Thukral, Director of Law and Advocacy

    Juhu Thukral is the Director of Law and Advocacy at The Opportunity Agenda. She has been an advocate for the rights of low-income and immigrant women in the areas of sexual health and rights, gender-based violence, economic security, and criminal justice for over 15 years.

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Staff

  • Emily Accamando, Program Associate

    Emily has a diversity of experience coordinating efforts in community development and capacity-building. Most recently, as a Program Coordinator at a youth-empowerment organization, she managed a community-action program in several high schools, developing partnerships with local organizations to create opportunities for youth to make an impact in their communities. As a Peace Corps volunteer in Peru, Emily led a group of local residents in developing ecotourism as an approach to natural resource management and income generation. She authored a USAID grant and managed the construction and implementation of an Interpretation Center that served as the center of their conservation and organizing efforts.

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  • Eleni Delimpaltadaki, Public Opinion and Media Research Coordinator

    Eleni manages the organization’s public opinion research and media analysis, and provides strategic input on research, communications and advocacy projects for social justice groups in the U.S. In addition to serving as deputy campaign manager for a number of New York State political campaigns, Eleni conducted extensive polling and built campaign strategies for legislative initiatives, and electoral candidates in the East Coast. On public policy issues, such as health care, labor standards and tax equity, she worked with labor unions and public policy groups, including the Business and Labor Coalition of New (BALCONY), which she helped build, and served as Director of Research.  She previously worked as a reporter for foreign media outlets.

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  • Megan Haberle, Economic Opportunity Fellow & Associate Counsel

    Megan most recently served as an associate at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, where she focused on securities fraud and complex commercial litigation. Working in a pro bono capacity, she was instrumental in advocating for a Constitutional right of access to postconviction DNA testing within the Second Circuit. While at Columbia Law School, she worked with the Legal Aid Society’s Immigration Law Unit, the California Appellate Project, and Advancement Project, and participated in a rebuilding trip to New Orleans. Prior to law school, Megan was a paralegal at the American Civil Liberties Union, where she specialized in school-to-prison pipeline research, indigent defense reform, and racial profiling litigation. She has also worked as an English teacher in Daegu, Republic of Korea.

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  • Micky Hingorani, Web Strategist

    Micky most recently worked at Doctors Without Borders in their Communications department. His work consisted of research and writing for their print publications and working on an assortment of projects for their website. Prior to this Micky worked on the marketing of a blog produced jointly by the Century Foundation and the Center for American Progress. Micky is also pursuing his doctoral degree in Global Affairs at Rutgers University. His dissertation focuses on the impact of the internet on political organizations.

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  • Nerissa Kunakemakorn, Associate Counsel and Robert L. Carter Fellow

    Nerissa came to The Opportunity Agenda after working as the Reigle Human Rights Staff Attorney at Justice Now, where she documented and publicized human rights abuses occurring in California's women's prisons.  Prior to that, she drafted bench memoranda for numerous political asylum appeals as an Immigration Law Clerk for the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.  While at NYU School of Law, Nerissa participated in the Juvenile/Criminal Defense Clinic, the Capital Defender Clinic, and internships at the Brooklyn Legal Aid Society, the NAACP-LDF, and the Public Defender Service of D.C.

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  • Eva-Marie Malone, Communications Associate

    Eva-Marie provides strategic media relations and communications support for work done by The Opportunity Agenda focusing on an equitable economic recovery. Eva-Marie has extensive experience as a writer, graphic specialist, and web designer for small non-profits. Most recently, Eva-Marie was responsible for communications for the Pro Bono Institute.

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  • Christopher Moore, Communications Associate

    Chris provides strategic media relations support, publications management, and coordination of many of the events and projects undertaken by the Communications Department. A former newspaper reporter, Chris has been working in nonprofit communications since 2005. Prior to joining The Opportunity Agenda he was the Director of Marketing and Communications for Safe Horizon, a nonprofit victims’ services agency in New York City.

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  • Ross Mudrick, Grant Writing Associate

    Ross has provided strategic development consulting to a wide variety of New York non-profits, including Northside Center for Child Development, Jewish Association for Services for the Aged (JASA), and Issue Project Room.  His background in advocacy and strategic communications includes work on campaign finance reform, young voter turnout, and a number of state and local electoral campaigns in San Francisco and Wisconsin.  

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  • Kisha Parks, Office and Fiscal Manager

    Kisha brings over ten years of experience in accounting, human resources and office administration in both the non-profit and private sectors to her new role at the Opportunity Agenda.  Kisha spent five years in Workplace Financial Services at JP Morgan Chase Bank before leaving to serve as Finance/Payroll Manager for the non-profit Dance Theater Workshop in Manhattan.  Most recently, she handled human resources and general accounting for a software development firm in Atlanta, Georgia.

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  • Dina Rezvani, Office and Executive Assistant

    Dina Rezvani started at The Opportunity Agenda as a Century Foundation intern in 2008 and is now the Office and Executive Assistant. Before coming to The Opportunity Agenda, she worked as an intern in the media, non-profit and government sectors. As a Tufts University Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service intern, she wrote a policy research paper for Senator Augustus Jr. investigating potential policy changes to augment Massachusetts’ youth voter turnout.

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  • Julie Rowe, Framing and Messaging Coordinator

    Julie works with a variety of non-profit staff on communication strategy, messaging, framing and media outreach.  She has worked in communications for non-profits on a range of issues including affordable housing, community development, family support, immigration, and the arts.  At Prevent Child Abuse America, Julie worked on a project to reframe child abuse prevention and family support messaging for the organization’s network of state and local programs. 

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  • Alicia Williamson, Development Officer

    Alicia previously served as development coordinator for a Pennsylvania civil rights organization.  Her work included grants management, special event planning, and individual donor administration.  She has worked with a number of nonprofit advocacy organizations targeting issues such as civil liberties, domestic violence, employment discrimination, reproductive rights, and safeguarding elections.  Alicia holds a law degree from City University of New York School of Law, where she served as a member of the New York Law Review.

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